UPDATE: Paramount has confirmed to MTV that the projected release date for the "Star Trek" sequel is indeed June 29, 2012.

This counts as news, but there's not much to it. We all know there's a "Star Trek" sequel coming. Hell, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, writers/producers of the May reboot, were talking about sequel possibilities as far back as the week after the first movie came out. Now we have a date to pin our hopes to: June 29, 2012.

Nothing else is known or announced, so don't ask. Maybe director J.J. Abrams will return to helm the sequel, maybe he won't. Maybe Khan will be the villain, maybe not. For all we know, the plan is to give us an epic "Star Trek Meets Star Wars" crossover. Could happen, right?

The news comes from a variety of sources, including Ain't It Cool News and Box Office Mojo, but there's no Paramount-issued press release that I can find. The information ran through some trustworthy sources, but we've yet to receive comment from the studio directly.

Regardless, there really hasn't ever been any doubt that we'd be seeing more "Star Trek." Abrams' take on the series made it friendly to an entirely new, much wider audience than its ever known before.

Were you anything less than certain that a "Star Trek" sequel was coming eventually? Where would you like the story to go from where it is now? Any specific hopes for the sequel?

what are you talking about. The majority of posters here are psyched for this movie. Only a very few are hating on Abrams. Hell I agree with them on some things too but as far as Star Trek goes, I can't friggin wait.

The last one was one of the best evah in the Star Trek franchise. Yeah, looking forward to this one.

In case there's any confusion over the bad robot discussion, I loved the 2009 Star Trek movie (actually own it on DVD, it's in its own little plastic enterprise case!) and think everything that I've seen of the sequel looks great.

In case there's any confusion over the bad robot discussion, I loved the 2009 Star Trek movie (actually own it on DVD, it's in its own little plastic enterprise case!) and think everything that I've seen of the sequel looks great.

Judging from the 10-minute IMAX "prologue" I saw three times today, the flavor of "Star Trek Into Darkness" seems to be the same as "Star Trek". Same music, same sweeping "reveal" of the ship, same hot Uhura, same snappy banter between Kirk and Spock and Kirk and Bones, same humor and line delivery from Scotty, same energetic pace (the prologue was very reminiscent of the segment where the Enterprise appears at Vulcan and Kirk, Sulu, and Redshirt bail from the shuttle to go hand-to-hand on the dangly energy-blaster-thingy). Seems like Abrams and the bigwigs said, "It worked once, let's not **** it up too much." Which is fine by me.